"Brief Candles"

I was thinking about "Brief Candles" this morning and had a realization about the coda.  In the stereo mix, the piano (along with the bass) is in the left channel, and the right channel contains merely its reverb.  This particular distribution of the sound creates a sense of space, and consequently, the isolated position of the instruments is emphasized.  This sort of separation matches the solitude of the characters in the lyrics ("She only needs to be alone" in the first verse and "He's alone" in the second).